Staff profile

Dr Timothy Jones ARC DECRA fellowship

Research Fellow

Faculty of Health Sciences

School of Public Health and Human Biosciences Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society

Melbourne (City)

 

Qualifications

PhD (history) Melbourne, 2007

Brief Profile

I am a cultural historian with a particular interest in gender, sexuality and religion, and research expertise in British, Australian and American history. From 2008 I was lecturer in History and Co-Director of the Centre for Gender Studies in Wales at the University of Glamorgan. Until July 2015 I will be on leave from Glamorgan to work on an Australian Research Council fellowship at LaTrobe University. The project, ‘Whose Family Values? The Christian Right and Sexual Politics in Postsecular Australia’ is funded by a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award.

Research interests

Sexuality and Relationships

- History of Sexuality, Religion and Emotions

Recent Publications

Love and Romance in Britain, 1918-1970, edited with Alana Harris (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).

'Moral Welfare and Social Wellbeing: The Church of England and the Emergence of Modern Homosexuality.' In Sue Morgan and Lucy Delap (eds), Men, Masculinities, and Religious Change in Britain since 1900 (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2013).

Sexual Politics in the Church of England, 1857-1957 (Oxford University Press, 2012).

'Unduly Conscious of Her Sex: Priesthood, female bodies and sacred space in the Church of England,' Women's History Review, 2012, 21(4): 639-655. 

‘Queer Melbourne,’ History Australia (August 2012), pp. 198-200.

‘The Missionaries’ Position: Polygamy and divorce in the Anglican Communion, 1888-1988,’ Journal of Religious History, 2011, 35(3): 393-408.

‘The Stained Glass Closet: Celibacy and homosexuality in the Church of England,’ The Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2011, 20(1): 132-152.

‘Incestuous Sacraments: Anglo-Catholic Sexuality and the Deceased Wife’s Sister Act’. In Bernard Mees and Samuel R. Koehne. eds, Terror, War, Tradition: Studies in European history. Unley, S.A.: Australian Humanities Press, 2007, 3-17.

‘The disappearing empire: Anglican conversion to contraception, 1905-1930’. In Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw, Kiera Lindsey & Stuart Macintyre, eds, Exploring the British World. RMIT Publishing, Melbourne, 2004, 922-32.